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His Excellency graciously returns my greeting.
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On Ormond quay, steering my way from the greenhouse for the subsheriff's office, I stand still in midstreet and bring my hat low.
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I hand her two pennies. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Here. Get a glass of milk for yourself and a bun or a something. I'll be home shortly.
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I nod. @DILLYDEDALUS -- I will. I looked all along the gutter in O'Connell street. I'll try this one now.
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I draw forth a handful of copper coins. @DILLYDEDALUS -- I got 2 shillings from Jack Power and I spent twopence for a shave for the funeral.
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- I'm going to show you a little trick. I'll leave you all where Jesus left the jews. Look, there's all I have.
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- Watch him. It's instructive. I wonder will he allow us to talk.
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@THELACQUEY -- Curse your bloody blatant soul.
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I stop. @DILLYDEDALUS -- Well, what is it?
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- Wouldn't care if I was stretched out stiff. He's dead. The man upstairs is dead. I leave her and walk on.
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- But wait awhile. You'll all get a short shrift and a long day from me. Low blackguardism! I'm going to get rid of you.
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- Wait awhile. You're like the rest of them, are you? An insolent pack of little bitches since your poor mother died.
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I hand her a shilling. @DILLYDEDALUS -- See if you can do anything with that.
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- I was not then. Was it the little nuns taught you to be so saucy? Here.
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- How do you know that
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- Where would I get money? There is no-one in Dublin would lend me fourpence.
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I draw myself upright and tug again at my moustache.
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I let my head sink suddenly down and forward, hunching my shoulders and dropping my underjaw.
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- Stand up straight, girl. You'll get curvature of the spine. Do you know what you look like?
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@DILLYDEDALUS -- Stand up straight for the love of the Lord Jesus. Are you trying to imitate your uncle John the cornetplayer?
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